Music Babble

See that's part of the problem- even after all these years of music geekdom, I'm still not 100% confident re: what's actual punk and what isn't. When I plug "punk" into the search engine of my RYM reviews, these are the artists that come up and I can't really tell you which of them are true punk (but I've listened to full albums or comps by all of them- memory of "Sandinista" is too fuzzy to review apparently):